It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.

Sin may appear good. But by God's commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living.(Professor Alistair Dawkins)

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.